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22 at 8 p.m. featuring the regional premiere of Arvo Part’s Adams’ Lament as well as works by Gorecki, Adams and Boulez, with Orchestra 2001. Church of the Holy Trinity, 19th and Walnut on Rittenhouse Square. Repeat- ed on October 23 at Swarth- more College in Swarthmore, PA. Tickets and information at
www.mcchorus.org. UPenn’s Music Department offers an intriguing concert on October 22 at 8 p.m. pair- ing Beethoven’s Symphony #3 with local composer/Pu- litzer Prize winner Jennifer Higdon’s Dooryard Bloom fea- turing baritone Randall Scar- latta. Irvine Auditorium, 34th and Spruce. Free with PennCard, $5 for the general public. 215-898-8698. The 53rd Annual Center City Residents Association Fall House Tour is set for October 23 from 1 to 5 p.m. offering alluring visits to twenty locations including the residences of such local notables as Judy Wicks, Ur- sula Hobson and Eric Berg. Rain or shine, visitors will be able to tour elegant inte- riors and in many cases meet with the owners. This self- guided tour begins at Trinity Center, 2212 Spruce or Beth Zion Beth Israel at 18th and Spruce where participants will receive a tour booklet with complete information, house descriptions and route map. All for the benefit of CCRA. Tickets and informa- tion at 215-546-6719. The unrivaled Curtis Sym- phony Orchestra opens its Jack Wolgin Orchestral Concerts series on October 23 at 3 p.m. with Michael Stern (1986 alumnus) and Vinay Parameswaran con- ducting alumnus Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings; the Philadelphia premiere of Ludwig’s Fanfare for Sam, a Curtis commission; Tchai- kovsky’s Symphony #4; and acclaimed pianist Jonathan Biss (alumnus 2001) per- forming Beethoven’s Con- certo #4. 3 p.m. Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center, Broad and Spruce. Preceding the concert as of 1 p.m., an Ap- passionata Celebration, free and open to all, no tickets re- quired, will fill the Kimmel’s Commonwealth Plaza with a variety of multimedia sta- tions taking visitors through Curtis’ rich heritage; pre- viewing the newly-opened 105,000 square foot campus expansion, Lenfest Hall; and sharing stories from Curtis
alumni. 215-893-1999. Lectures-in-Song’s Fred Miller is back at the Phila- delphia Art Alliance on Oc- tober 23 at 3 p.m. in a tribute to actor/dancer/singer Fred Astaire. 251 S. 18th. 215- 545-4302. The Philadelphia Classical Symphony presents Winds Alive on October 23 at 4 p.m. featuring music inspired by landscape and performed by esteemed woodwind play- ers Ricardo Morales, Daniel Masukawa and Jonathan Hulting-Cohen, including works by Rautavaara, Berio, a Jan Krzywicki world pre- miere, Boutry and R. Strauss. Church of the Holy Trinity, 19th and Walnut on Ritten- house Square. Tickets at 1 800-504-4849. Temple University faculty member pianist Charles Abramovic offers Keyboard Narratives, a program of mu- sic from the 18th and 21st centuries by Bach, Kuhnau, Liszt, Satie, Ives and Dean on October 25 at 7:30 p.m. in Rock Hall Auditorium, Broad and Cecil B. Moore, free, no tickets required. 215- 204-7600. The great American play- wright and spoofster Charles Ludlam gets the full Act II Playhouse treatment from October 25 through November 20, when two of our city’s most formidable young actors, Pig Iron’s Dito van Reigersberg and Luigi Sotile, take on the comic masterpiece The Mystery of Irma Vep, a madcap quick- change and riotous comedy in which they perform eight roles, rapidly changing cos- tumes and genders for non- stop hilarity. Harriet Power stages the work and James Sugg provides new music and sound design. 56 E. Butler Ave., in Ambler, PA, easily reached by SEPTA. 215-654-0200.
DID YOU KNOW? R
elatively recent research has suggested Irish novelist Bram Stoker knew little about the his- tory of Vlad III, better known as Vlad the Im-
paler and a figure long considered to be the inspira- tion for the titular character in Stoker’s famous novel Dracula. In fact, historians consider Stoker’s work the culmination of a series of works that were inspired by growing tales of vampirism that were coming from Hungary and the Balkans, rather than history associ- ated with Vlad III. The book’s relationship with Vlad III likely stems from geography and little else. Vlad III might have died centuries before stories of vampirism started to spread, but he did live in the region where such tales spread wildly. Centuries later, when Stoker was penning his tale of the vampire Count Dracula, it makes sense he would have set the story in the region where Vlad III lived. What’s more, Vlad III’s reputation for ruthlessness makes him a natural source of inspira- tion, even if Stoker knew little about Vlad III beyond that brutal reputation.
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